Do they go unconscious in anaerobic respiration after a while? Or do they just die?

or do they first go unconscious....and then if you continue the hold....die?

If you get a really great choke on someone they'll go out almost instantaneous...obviously if this is a non-street fight you'll have stoppage as soon as someone 'feels' like they're going out or go out, so there really is no damage...but if you apply the choke for any longer you have the possibility of killing someone....I'm sure a novice would accidentally do something like that here or there. If you're trained in some sort of MMA and apply say a rear naked choke on someone in a bar, you can feel the point where they go loose and limp and you know to drop them..just make sure they lie face down so they don't swallow their tongue and you get a "D'OH!" killing.

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If you get a really great choke on someone they'll go out almost instantaneous...obviously if this is a non-street fight you'll have stoppage as soon as someone 'feels' like they're going out or go out, so there really is no damage...but if you apply the choke for any longer you have the possibility of killing someone....I'm sure a novice would accidentally do something like that here or there. If you're trained in some sort of MMA and apply say a rear naked choke on someone in a bar, you can feel the point where they go loose and limp and you know to drop them..just make sure they lie face down so they don't swallow their tongue and you get a "D'OH!" killing.

That's what I was thinking. I asked because I was thinking if I ever got into a fight with a friend and didn't wanna strike him (they're all a lot smaller than me) I would just choke them out....but don't wanna kill them or anything lol

if you are doing most chokes correctly they are blood chokes, cutting off blood to the brain...your barrow (sp?) receptors in you brain tell your body to shut it down and go into a sort of "survival mode" thats what makes u go unconcious. if you held that long enough...sure u could kill someone.

edit...forgot to add to your other question...as long as u let go right after they go out they should wake right back up. as soon as pressure is off the arterys the blood returns to the brain.

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"Nature designed my body,
but nature lacks intelligence,
I do not.
and I will build a better body than nature ever could."
-sikboy

"Just be satisfied that you'll never be satisfied" - TheJuicedchase

"basically, your friend is gonna get some erections, bloat with water, then shed the water, have painful joints and painful pumps then die" - amerigovespucci

So basically, unless you know what you're doing...don't try this at home!

Chokes in situations where you don't want to get into some sort of police riddled knock down drag out fights are probably only good for 'advanced' users anyhow...I think the risk of you damaging someone is higher by choking them out and not know what you're doing than throwing wild punches or taking someone down and blasting them out.

But who knows? I choked someone out at a convention once who was wildin' out screamin' how he was a tommytuffguy and all his buddies were like "He's UFC! DONT FUK WIT HIM!" which I could tell couldn't possibly be true. I scooped his legs out from under him and positioned myself behind him and passed his ass out, he got up all disoriented like 10 seconds later not knowing where the funk he was.

♛ God of POF Krew ♛
But Officer...I fed her to the chainsaw and HE ate her!!

So basically, unless you know what you're doing...don't try this at home!

Chokes in situations where you don't want to get into some sort of police riddled knock down drag out fights are probably only good for 'advanced' users anyhow...I think the risk of you damaging someone is higher by choking them out and not know what you're doing than throwing wild punches or taking someone down and blasting them out.

But who knows? I choked someone out at a convention once who was wildin' out screamin' how he was a tommytuffguy and all his buddies were like "He's UFC! DONT FUK WIT HIM!" which I could tell couldn't possibly be true. I scooped his legs out from under him and positioned myself behind him and passed his ass out, he got up all disoriented like 10 seconds later not knowing where the funk he was.

i disagree. i think a choke is a lot safer than throwing punches...if you catch a good punch on the button and go out as u fall to the ground...wat happens to your head when it bounces off the pavement? that could cause some serious brain damage.

a true blood choke is fairly safe...passing out is your bodies natural defence to keep it safe, and use all available blood to power ur brain. if you are using an airway choke thats a bit different, and more dangerous than a blood choke.

"Nature designed my body,
but nature lacks intelligence,
I do not.
and I will build a better body than nature ever could."
-sikboy

"Just be satisfied that you'll never be satisfied" - TheJuicedchase

"basically, your friend is gonna get some erections, bloat with water, then shed the water, have painful joints and painful pumps then die" - amerigovespucci

I've been out before (x-choke). I didn't even know I was choked out when I woke up staring at the ceiling. I was like WTF am I doing here on the mats? I thought I was dreaming about training for a second until my senses came back. My hands tingled a little and I felt out of it for a minute or so, but other than that it wasn't too bad.

if you get into a fight with your friends you don't have to choke them either. You could just put them face down on the ground with a knee in their back, like the cops and ask them if they had enough. Use little force, but if you have to apply a choke don't do a guillatine choke and risk hurting their neck or anything. A simple rear naked will work.

if you get into a fight with your friends you don't have to choke them either. You could just put them face down on the ground with a knee in their back, like the cops and ask them if they had enough. Use little force, but if you have to apply a choke don't do a guillatine choke and risk hurting their neck or anything. A simple rear naked will work.

Yeah I don't really like the guillotine.

I fought a wrestler once....he went for a takedown and i just guillotined him. He tapped out VERY quickly and I could just feel the pain he was going through. Looked really painful for his neck and I almost felt bad afterward.

You guys never play space monkeys? Man I played that one night choked myself out like 10 times one night. Either way I was alright, that was a really reallllly gay game and dumb idea though like when I huffed 20+ of those baloons all in the same time frame, I was a moron when I was in elementary school.